Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839 . e gentle towards me, and towardsthe errors and omissions Avhich may be found inthis work. I doubt not there are many, but my aimis to excite rather than to gratify curiosity, and topersuade you to go and see for yourself, rather thanto rest satisfied with what I have seen and detail toyou. I have truly and simply related things as I 78 INTRODUCTION. saw and understood them, but it is possible that Imay sometimes have mistaken, as it is certain thatI have often forgotten. My imperfect Italian, too,does not make me sure that my questions werealways ri
Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839 . e gentle towards me, and towardsthe errors and omissions Avhich may be found inthis work. I doubt not there are many, but my aimis to excite rather than to gratify curiosity, and topersuade you to go and see for yourself, rather thanto rest satisfied with what I have seen and detail toyou. I have truly and simply related things as I 78 INTRODUCTION. saw and understood them, but it is possible that Imay sometimes have mistaken, as it is certain thatI have often forgotten. My imperfect Italian, too,does not make me sure that my questions werealways rightly understood, by those most able andmost willing to give instruction. I am now farfrom the sources of information and the scenes Ihave described, but I shall be grateful to any oneAvho will add to these recollections, or correct them ;and should my humble writing be the means ofbringing forth some more worthy work upon thesubject, I shall be thankful, for the sake of scienceand history in general, that ever I was led to makethe MJ-eet A M 79 CHAPTER II. VEIL In the month of February, 1839, Capranesi,the first dealer in antiquities in Rome, and one ofthe first existing antiquaries for learning and re-search in his own line in Europe, offered us to bepresent at the opening of a tomb in the necropolisof ancient Yeii. We gladly accepted the offer, andpursued the high road to Florence, as far as Fossa,whence we took a guide across the fields for abouttwo miles, pursuing a very ancient road which onceled from some minor city to the superb metropolisof Veii, and which was still in use in the days ofTiberius ; then sending our horses to the IsolaFarnese, distant by a beautiful walk of two milesfurther, we went the rest of our way on foot. Thespot on which we stopped was a hill separated by adeep ravine from two others. The one in front 80 VEIL was once covered by the ancient and magnificenttown of Veii, and the one upon the left hand hadbeen its chief necropolis. The
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